Throughout most of the year in Streaming Media, we tell you what we think, whether it’s our writers or the various industry experts they tap in their articles sharing their expertise, analyzing what’s happening, or predicting what’s to come in the streaming world. But once a year, we flip that script and let the readers have their say with our annual Readers’ Choice Awards. The results are sometimes surprising and always illuminating. While you’ll see a number of familiar names in the list, as we reveal this year’s winners and runners-up, this year, as in all years, there are plenty of surprises and a few instances of winners and finalists we wouldn’t have predicted, but just as often leave us thinking, “But, of course,” and rushing to reconsider previous assessments.
This year’s awards brought in 140 nominees, which were then voted on by StreamingMedia.com readers. More than 1,600 readers cast roughly 14,000 votes in 22 categories that reflect both the Streaming Media and Streaming Media Producer purviews. After discarding votes from obviously phony email addresses, as well as votes by employees casting ballots for their own companies’ products, we identified the top three vote-getters in each category. Many of the names are familiar, even expected, but you’ll find a number of unexpected names and products in the list that follows. And if you’re surprised that a company isn’t represented, well, all we can say is that it either wasn’t nominated or didn’t get enough votes. Thanks to all who nominated and voted, and thanks to BirdDog and PTZOptics for sponsoring this year’s awards. And we’re pleased as punch to be presenting these awards—live and in person for the first time since 2019—at Streaming Media West 2022! Industrial Touch Screen Panel Pc
Winner: Bitmovin – Bitmovin Analytics Runners-Up: MediaMelon – SmartSight QoE, Telestream – iVMS AMS
Winner: LiveU – LiveU Ingest Runners-Up: Flussonic LLC – WebRTC Flussonic (Flussonic Media Server), Muvi LLC – Muvi Minis
Winner: LiveU – LU800 Runners-Up: Haivision/AVIWest Pro460, TVU Networks – TVU One 4K with 5G
Winner: Telestream – CaptionMaker Runners-Up: Flussonic LLC – Flussonic Media Server, IBM Watson Media – Watson Live Captioning
Winner: Bitmovin – Bitmovin Next-Generation VOD Encoder Runners-Up: Flussonic LLC – Flussonic Cloud, Telestream – Encoding.com
Winner: Blackmagic Design – Blackmagic Cloud Runners-Up: LiveU – LiveU Matrix, Vizrt – Viz Vectar Plus
Winner: Amazon Web Services – Amazon CloudFront Runners-Up: Akamai – Intelligent Edge Platform,Google – Google Cloud CDN
Winner: Vimeo – Vimeo Enterprise Runners-Up: Haivision – Haivision Media Platform, Telestream – Sherpa Stream
Winner: EZDRM – Universal Complete Runners-Up: Bitmovin – Bitmovin/Nagra Forensic Watermarking, IdeaNova – Inplay DRM
Winner: Haivision – Makito X4 Encoder Runners-Up: Blackmagic Design – Web Presenter 4K, Flussonic LLC – Flussonic Coder
Winner: Muvi LLC – Muvi Live Runners-Up: Haivision – Haivision Connect, Vimeo – Vimeo Live Streaming Platform
Winner: LiveU – Air Control Runners-Up: NewTek – CaptureCast, Telestream – Sherpa Stream
Winner: IdeaNova – Intouch Nearcast Runners-Up: LiveSwitch – LiveSwitch Server, Magewell – USB Fusion
Winner: Telestream – Vantage Media Processing Platform Runners-Up: Flussonic LLC – Flussonic Media Server, Haivision – Makito X4 Encoder
Winner: Vimeo –Vimeo OTT Runners-Up: Bitmovin – Bitmovin Per-Title,Brightcove – Brightcove Beacon
Winner: Bitmovin – Bitmovin Per-Title Runners-Up: Brightcove – Brightcove Context Aware Encoding, Harmonic – VOS®360 Cloud Streaming Platform
Winner: BirdDog – P120 Runners-Up: NewTek – NDI|HX PTZ3, PTZ Optics – 30X NDI PTZ Camera
Winner: Akamai – Broadcast Operations Command Center (BOCC) Runners-Up: Telestream – Centralized Video Quality Monitoring Management, Witbe – Witbox+
Winner: Amazon – AWS Elemental MediaTailor Runners-Up: Brightcove – Brightcove SSAI, MediaKind – PRISMA
Winner: Magewell – Ultra Encode Runners-Up: Flussonic LLC – Flussonic Coder, LiveU – LU800
Winner: Blackmagic Design – ATEM SDI Pro ISO Runners-Up: Telestream – Wirecast Pro, vMix – Live Video Streaming Software
Winner: NewTek – TriCaster Mini X Runners-Up: Roland – V-600UHD, Telestream – Wirecast Gear 3
More than 1,600 readers voted in 22 categories. We'll announce the winners at Streaming Media West in Huntington Beach on November 16, but here's a tease—the top three vote-getters in each category. And you just might be surprised at the names you see.
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